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Which Cisco wireless feature is designed to help balance the client load across multiple APs in a dense environment?
The correct answer is D. Load Balancing. Cisco Load Balancing distributes client associations across multiple APs to prevent any single AP from becoming overloaded in high-density environments. It actively steers clients to less congested APs during the association process.
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Which Cisco wireless feature is designed to help balance the client load across multiple APs in a dense environment?
Options
- ACleanAir
- BClientLink
- CBand Select
- DLoad Balancing
How the community answered
(67 responses)- A7% (5)
- B3% (2)
- C1% (1)
- D88% (59)
Why each option
Cisco Load Balancing distributes client associations across multiple APs to prevent any single AP from becoming overloaded in high-density environments. It actively steers clients to less congested APs during the association process.
CleanAir is Cisco's spectrum intelligence feature for detecting and mitigating non-802.11 RF interference, not for distributing client associations.
ClientLink is a Cisco beamforming technology that improves downlink signal quality to legacy single-antenna clients, not a load distribution mechanism.
Band Select encourages dual-band clients to associate on 5 GHz to reduce 2.4 GHz congestion, but it does not balance client counts across multiple APs.
Cisco Load Balancing monitors the number of clients associated with nearby APs and, when an AP reaches a configurable threshold, sends association denial frames to redirect new clients to a less loaded neighbor AP. This evenly distributes client load across the wireless infrastructure in dense deployments, improving overall throughput and user experience.
Concept tested: Cisco AP load balancing in dense wireless deployments
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/8-10/config-guide/b_cg810/load_balancing.html
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